AS students: how far are you in your revision?

ii, any tips you can give me?
Im really struggling for ideas on how to revise.

Ive made all of my notes. Yess i do have a textbook, dont really like it though.

Ive got the cpg (?) revision book which i find is good!

Ive going to an intense revision course next week and im getting a biology tutor for the weeks before the exam!

Arrgggghhh

What subjects are you doing/how many exams do you have?

I've got CGP one too, does yours have a green cover? It's good, but I always fear with OCR that they'll test you on something exclusively in their textbook.

What other subjects are you taking? I assume you want to do well in Biology, then!

Im doing:
Psychology
Biology
Sociology
Law
English (already done the AS year for it though, just resitting an exam in Jan)

I have 8 exams in the summer

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I'm seriously struggling with M1. S1's also a bit of a bother. S2, FP1 and C2 maths are fine.

G492 physics - we're not far enough into the teaching so I'll just have to go for what we've done. Not done much yet, I'm focusing on Maths.

F322 chemistry - done a few old spec questions but still not improving much, I need to work on my Green Chemistry. And long questions - I just die a little each time I see one.

I actually thought i'd been given a pair when I first opened it, then realised I was on a different author..
We did our course backwards so everyone had two chances at the exam, because it's worth more, and because they can't mark coursework, people were handing in bad essays and then doing the same thing in the exam. The results have so far come out so much better this year, so somethings got to be working
I'm doing Enduring Love and The Collector for my comparative essay, and then Tony Harrison for my clos analysis.. both boring

M1 is TOUGH! I find it quite difficult aswell. I don't think the paper is going to be easy either since Jan11 was a good paper. I'm using ExamSolutions a lot lately, I done about 3 past papers today, I excluded the Vectors questions since I just can't get my head around it and it was stopping me revising. As you do more questions, you'll get it. I see myself progressing quite a lot, I'll probably work through 2008 June-2010 tomorrow to get a good idea of how it'll be like.

I'm making sure I'd have covered EVERYTHING by the end of the Easter holidays - content, past papers etc. so I need to start working properly which I will do tomorrow

I'm doing AQA Literature Syllabus A but I guess it shouldn't make much of a difference.. do you have any exam tips on how to get easy marks?

Wow, 8 exams, that's quite a lot, but don't panic, panicking makes it worse. What did you get in january if you don't mind me asking?
Obviously you're going to need to balance your time between what exams are worth more/more important. E.g. if you're resitting BIOL1 don't spend an excessive amount of time on it just because you want to get the grade up from the last module but focus more on BIOL2 which is worth 140 UMS as opposed to 100 (for AQA anyway, just an example).


Sociology-There are only a certain amount of topics that can come up so what i did was plan essays for all of the topics, and then actually do the essays. The exam is actually pretty easy. Don't worry about studies until the end, you'll learn them as you go when you do essays but then learn them look-cover-write-check style the week coming up to the exam

Psychology-I think i summarised all my notes onto cards and then did all the past papers available. It was a case of past questions for me, you can make them up for yourself as well. Make tables comparing different things for comparison questions and try and make links between different approaches. Same as sociology for study learning.

Biology-biology it's a lot about content but also about application, i did AQA and did this, i highlighted the text book and the revision guide and made notes from them onto cards, i did all the summary questions on each page, i did the exam style questions at the end of each chapter, i learnt the how science works things and did those questions, i downloaded old exam papers and probably did about 150 past questions that applied to my speck.

I never did law

English-it's about knowing what is going to come up in the paper, there is only so much they can ask you so it's a good idea to plan potential responses and obviously re-read your texts.

The basic message is that there is no point in just staring blankly at your notes, you have to DO something with the information that you've got in front of you, it enhances your understanding and helps you prepare for an exam situation, it's also more interesting so you're less likely to let your attention wander.

Finally, i always make a list of 'task-based revision' i.e. i never say 'today i am going to do 6 hours' but say 'today i am going to plan 2 english essays, do one psychology exam paper and make 10 pages of biology notes'. If you make an actual list you get to cross things off which is both satisfying and lets you feel like you're making progress.

Try and do more than one subject a day, i find if you spend hours and hours on one subject you a) feel like you're neglecting your other subjects and then panic revise them and b) lose concentration, by doing 2 hours of one subject and then 2 hours of another, a small break and then another subject you're keeping your learning fresh and moderately interesting. it's a long slog but you just have to remember that it's not forever, and it will be so worth it when you get the grades that you want in the summer.

Hope this helps, good luck!

M1 is TOUGH! I find it quite difficult aswell. I don't think the paper is going to be easy either since Jan11 was a good paper. I'm using ExamSolutions a lot lately, I done about 3 past papers today, I excluded the Vectors questions since I just can't get my head around it and it was stopping me revising. As you do more questions, you'll get it. I see myself progressing quite a lot, I'll probably work through 2008 June-2010 tomorrow to get a good idea of how it'll be like.

It's the pulleys that screw me over. I haven't had any teaching for M1 at all (FP1 as well but at least my maths teacher helps me with that) but some questions require a load of knowledge around the subject that the book just doesn't give. =/

I can do slopes now, and resolve, it's just certain questions that lump everything together - or inequalities. I can get one part of the inequality right but the other bit - forget about it. I'm struggling on momentum at the moment for some reason. I do Physics as well and they use different letters and it's just confusing me. Especially as my Physics teacher expects me to be amazin at it because I do mechanics. =/

FP1's going well and though I haven't started on S2, I think that'll be fine. C2's easy as well. It's just M1/S1 that are worrying me.

I'll just bug my head of maths about it when we have our revision session with him next week, he'll help. Thank God for helpful teachers. I swear I've spent more time with him lately than I have my friends

cant even imagine getting something like the last laugh/arms and the boy haha, if they did that....

ahh well you got an A so there must have been something right in gatsby! poetry is so much easier i think so you do your course almost backwards? exam first then coursework? Ahhhh i much prefer coursework, got full marks in it which is good, what texts are you doing for it?

There's tonnes of examples on Exam Solutions It'll help you so much! Go straight to the exam questions and see how it is done! The only problem with M1 is Vectors for me, I'm leaving that till after the Easter to learn it. The rest of it I'm going to cover in the holidays

i too am doing aqa english lit A, which topic are you doing, war??